Comments on Room 237 (2013) - Blu-ray Disc (UPDATED)TypePad2013-12-17T06:32:20ZBill Chambershttp://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/tag:typepad.com,2003:http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2013/12/room-237/comments/atom.xml/Kevin McLeod commented on 'Room 237 (2013) - Blu-ray Disc (UPDATED)'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a0168ea36d6b2970c019b04e97e0a970d2014-01-17T22:27:15Z2014-01-18T16:22:57ZKevin McLeodTo Greg (apologies for the delay, but been away for a bit) The Shining is not The Talmud. And I...<p>To Greg<br />
(apologies for the delay, but been away for a bit)<br />
The Shining is not The Talmud. And I am no High Priest. I am a scientist somewhat, searching for a global language that anyone can participate in by using it. Movie directors are our era&#39;s version of temple scribes, creating myths that encode our laws and rituals into performance. I&#39;m not trying to inscribe mystery, I&#39;m trying to decipher it, using methods that anthropologists and archaeologists have used for over a century to decrypt the past. Strangely, you infer that I have a proprietary relationship with this process and paradoxically the opposite is true, I let anyone who can read english access it, without any fees. You see this as dehumanizing, or that I am somehow less than human, and use a dead, subjective essence like irony as descriptive, while I can assure you that emotion is the central goal of all humanity and that the semantic-meaning that divides all humans is likely our undoing. Where ALL conflict comes from. And Kubrick is the one of few among many who is telling us to forge a new comprehension of humanity from our needless alliances with centralized, tribal meanings that lay buried in our languages but cannot be ignored in the purely visual. I am not interfering with your views regarding Kubrick, any interpretation is possible. But incredibly, you find it necessary to interfere with mine. Who is more aware here? </p>